Two neighbouring countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina ( the Bear’s shore) and Croatia ( the opposite side). Both so beautiful and seemingly peaceful. both sharing the same bloody past….
(Neum/Croatia)

So how can it be that for so many years those nations were living in peace , baptizing their kids and one day they started killing each other saying, ‚or you will leave your home or you will start digging the hole in the ground for you and your family‘?
(Podgora, Makarska Riviera/Croatia)

Once upon the time there was a bridge, over the Neretva river, built in the 16th century, connecting two parts of the city and two culturies. It stood for 427 years as a symbol of the reconciliation between the West and the East.On the 9th of November 1993 the Croatian army destroyed it on purpose. The bridge has recently been rebulit with the contribution of an international scientific committee established by UNESCO.
(Mostar/ Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Once somebody said,‘ Sarajevo is the only city where at noon the bell church rings as well as bell in the Eastern Orthodox church and where the muezzin chants ‚in the same time‘.
The siege of Sarajevo ( from the 5th of April 1992 up to 29th of February 1996) is the longest and the most tragic in the history of Europe after the Second World War.The city was completely cut off from the world for almost 3 years.
During that time Tadeusz Mazowiecki (the Polish special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia/ONZ) was sent there to check the situation.
And in 1995 he stepped down in protest at what he regarded as the international community’s insufficient response to atrocities committed during the Bosnian war, particularly the Srebrenica massacre committed by the Serb army that year.
here in the picture The Lion Cemetery with thousands victims of the siege.
Media presents that tremendous war in black and white. The more I live the more I see that nobody is innocent and everybody is responsible for this cruelty.
For the world it was a post-Jugoslav war. For Croats-the war in the name of their motherland. For Serbs-the civil war.
(Lion Cemetery Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina)

On June 24th, 1981 six young people saw on the hill called Crnica several hundred meters above the place called Podbrdo, a young woman with a child in her arms.From that day Medjugorje Apparitions have started. One of the most frequented topics of these messages are appeals for prayers and love. The contentoutlines the core of spiritual life:)
(Medjugorje/ Bosnia and Herzegovina)

It is said that faith is nothing to be discussed about but energetically speaking, it is a very strong place. The ocean of human suffering, compassion and hope. I love to meditate there.
(Medjugorje)

Even though the town is surrounded by massive mountains- Lovcen, Vrmac and Dobrota plus it is located on the Bay of Kotor ( Boka Kotorska) its fortifications were built for over 1000 years.So when one ruler was dead another one continued this incredible construction project. And indeed thanks to those impressive defensive walls the town was impregnable through the centuries.
But…it was nearly destroyed by earthquakes.
(Kotor/ Montenegro)

Next country-similar story of sick ambition ,big-eyed fear,
inhuman cruelty. Welcome to Albania!
Enver Halil Hoxha. He knew how to gain in winning the trust of Albanian citizens and very soon he was chosen as a leader of Albania (from 1944 until his death in 1985). His biggest achievement? Transformation of Albania into the huge jail. During that time Albanians couldn’t travel from one region to another not to mention international migration. Instead of it the nation was fed with boloney that Albania was the promised land.
So as a matter of fact, there was nothing to eat, to live on but there was propaganda.
(Tirana/Albania The house of Hoxha)

The 40-year period of Hoxha’s rule was characterized by the constant sense of insecurity. There were 700 000 bunkers in Albania that time.
(Tirana/Albania)

Streets were designed as narrow and winding . Why? to prevent airplane from landing in case of invasion.
(Kruje, Albania)

There was an underground tunnel connecting his home with the Parliament. The question is where? After the tunnel had been done Hoxha killed all workers. He wanted to make sure that he was the only one who had a key.
Today next to the Parliament there is a fragment of the Berlin Wall Nr: 28/40, Potsdamer Platz/ Berlin-Mitte/, a gift to the people of Albania, from the city of Berlin as a symbol of the isolation of the Communist World.
(Tirana/ Albania)
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The residents believe that when you drink the water from the Onufry Big Fountain and then make a wish it will come true.
The Buddha Bear was drinking for a long time…
I was watching him impatiently…
suddenly i couldn’t resist and I asked,‘ tell me! what is your dream!!!!‘ He just smiled…
(Dubrovink/ Croatia)